ColinRE: https://labyrinth.social/@nash/116178591588359360
you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production
luca@colinstu In the era of the first Pentium processors we had 8 MiB (yes, Mibi) of RAM quite often, and 16 MiB the lucky ones.
Had a colleague who wrote a memory leaking application, because he wrote convoluted C++ code, instantiating too many out of control classes - the style that I would later witness with Java.
When he got a new job position he was triumphant: "Ha! Now I have a PC with 256 megs!".
He didn't realize that any space can be filled.
Had a colleague who wrote a memory leaking application, because he wrote convoluted C++ code, instantiating too many out of control classes - the style that I would later witness with Java.
When he got a new job position he was triumphant: "Ha! Now I have a PC with 256 megs!".
He didn't realize that any space can be filled.
Magnus Ahltorp@luc0x61 I had installed Linux on a machine with 16MB in 1995, started X, a web server and a Netware server. I had an bunch of terminal windows open. It wasn’t until I started another terminal window that I ran out of memory and found out that this Slackware version didn’t enable the swap correctly, so I had done all that without swap.
@ahltorp The first version of Linux I actually installed was from Lasermoon, an UK distributor, Linux-FT 1.x, and it did run on a 486 with 4 MiB RAM. We used it, along with early Slackware, on many 486 on static IPs to the net, for some time.
A colleague some 10thousand km from the office, one day that no one was noticing him online, logged on a machine to play the "when henry met sally" notable scene, on the speaker. That generated quite some hilarity in the silent office.
A colleague some 10thousand km from the office, one day that no one was noticing him online, logged on a machine to play the "when henry met sally" notable scene, on the speaker. That generated quite some hilarity in the silent office.
BJ Swope 
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